CDC vaccinal panel to take the long-standing objective of anti-vaccine groups

WE The new vaccination advisers of the Secretary of Health Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Meet next week, but their program suggests that they will skip certain expected subjects – including a vote on the coated plans – while taking a long -standing target of the anti -vaccine groups.

The advisory committee on vaccination practices makes recommendations on how to use the country’s vaccines, the creation of a calendar for children’s vaccines, as well as advice for adult plans. Last week, Kennedy suddenly rejected The panel of experts of 17 members existing and selected eight replacements, including several anti-vaccine voices.

THE agenda For First meeting of the new committeePosted on Wednesday, shows that it will be shorter than expected. The discussion on the covored photos will open the session, but the agenda will not enumerate voting on this subject. Instead, the Committee will vote on vaccinations on the fall flu, RSV vaccinations for pregnant women and children and the use of a conservative named Thimérosal which is in a subset of flu plans.

It is not clear that wrote the agenda. No chairman of the Committee was appointed and the United States Ministry of Health and Social Services has not commented.

The Committee will not take vaccines against HPV or Meningococcus

Vaccine vaccine policy proposals are absent. Lying against HPV And the Bacteria Ménincoques, said Dr. Susan Kressly, president of the American Academy of Pediatrics.

Instead, the committee speaks of subjects “which are an established science,” she said.

“Each American should ask themselves how and why we arrived here, where the leaders promote their own program instead of protecting our people and our communities,” she said. She feared that it was “part of a useful program to insert a dangerous and harmful and unnecessary fear regarding vaccines in the process”.

The committee makes recommendations on how vaccines have been approved by Food and Drug Administration should be used. The recommendations traditionally go to the Director of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Historically, almost all are accepted and then used by insurance companies to decide the vaccines to be covered.

But the CDC has no director And the committee’s recommendations went to Kennedy.

Thimérosal is a long-standing target of anti-vaccine activists

Of Thimérosal was added to certain vaccines At the beginning of the 20th century, to make them safer and more accessible by preventing bacterial contamination in multi-dose bottles. It’s a small quantity, but because it is a form of mercury, it began to raise questions in the 1990s.

Kennedy – a leading voice in an anti-vaccination movement Before becoming the secretary of health of President Donald Trump – for a long time that there was a link between Thimérosal and Autism, and also accused the government of hiding the danger.

The study after the study found No evidence that Thimérosal causes autism. But since 2001, all vaccines manufactured for the American market and systematically recommended for children aged 6 or less have contained no quantity of thimerosal or traces, with the exception of the inactivated antigripping vaccine.

Thimérosal now only appears in vaccine bottles against multidose influenza, not the packaging with a single stroke of most of the influenza plans today.

The targeting of Thimérosal would probably force the manufacturers to switch to single dose bottles, which would make the shots “more expensive, less available and more feared,” said Paul Offer, expert in vaccination at the Philadelphia children’s hospital.

Groups of doctors opposed the movements of the Kennedy vaccine

Last week, 30 organizations called on insurers to continue paying Coids vaccines for pregnant women After Kennedy, Kennedy said that the shots would no longer be systematically recommended for this group.

The groups of doctors also opposed Kennedy changes to the Vaccine Committee. The new members he has chosen include a scientist who has done research on the technology of mRNA vaccines and has become a conservative darling for his criticisms on hairstyle vaccines, a high -level critic of the pandemic era and a leader of a group that has been largely considered a source of disinformation of vaccines.

The American Academy of Pediatrics has long extinguished his own Vaccination recommendations. In recent decades, he has equaled what the government has recommended. But he asked if they could soon diverge, according to potential changes in the government’s vaccination recommendations, said Kressly; “Nothing is outside the table.”

“We will do everything necessary to ensure that each child in each community obtains the vaccines they deserve to remain healthy and safe,” she said.